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Originally Posted by Difflugia
I don't know how I forgot Dickens! I had to read A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, but Great Expectations is actually one of my favorite books.
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I was made to read Great Expectations in school, and hated it. I read it later for pleasure and absolutely loved it. My kids have similar experiences - both have had an early fanatical enthusiasm for reading destroyed by the way Eng. Lit. is taught in (UK) schools. Something is very, very wrong here.